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Neuro Futurist | Prof. Neuroscience | Speaker | AI Change Strategist | Making Psychological Sense of AI | Author | Science of Intuition
Sep 6, 2021 9 tweets 4 min read
New work w talented @Becca_Keogh_PhD @marcusew8 shows that even without visual imagery those w #aphantasia can successfully perform lab-based & clinical visual working memory tasks. But they report different strategies & don't show the #VWM oblique effect
sciencedirect.com/science/articl… We used 4 types of working memory tasks in the lab.
Sep 4, 2021 9 tweets 5 min read
The eyes have it: The pupillary light response as a physiological index of aphantasia, sensory and phenomenological imagery strength. New preprint from the dream team @LachlanKay1612 @Becca_Keogh_PhD @thandrillon biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Image The pupil does not only adjust to ambient light, it encodes internal variables and responds to illusory brightness. Here, we show that it also tracks the strength of mental imagery!